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i always, ALWAYS sign emails off with my full first name. i think this is/should be sufficient to illustrate how i wish people to refer to me. right?

so why, oh why, do people just seem to have some kind of block on ACTUALLY USING MY FULL NAME? why do they all abbreviate it? no matter how many times i reply to thing, signing emails with my full name? WHY MUST THEY ANGER ME?

I mean Dan (sorry!) and Danny (sorry!) are recognised names in their own right. Someone called Sarah signing them off as a "Sar" (it wasn't that but I was giving a similar-ish example) isn't a real name and it feels a bit forced incorporating it into emails, even if she uses it.

I'm keeping names out of it 'cos I've found out in the last couple of weeks a couple of people at work know things about me from t'net. I don't think it's through DiS but I'm operating the precautionary principle and watching what I say for a bit.

I actually just mean like if you met someone and their name was 'Millie' I'd be disappointed to find out they weren't an Amelia or a Millicent on their birth certificate but were in fact just 'Millie'.

people don't tend to do it in emails, but people I hardly know call me 'Soph' in person, it's awful. I don't notice/mind when it's friends, as I realise they're abbreviating, not deciding it's my name.

The other thing I had as much as this is people kissing me in that greeting way, especially women, especially ones I don't know that well. FOR GOD'S SAKE THIS IS BRITAIN NOT FRANCE OR NORTH AMERICA KEEP YOUR DISTANCE.

I think we were all a little surprised. I also seem to remember she felt pronouncing it with the long o sound of sophie was extra-irritating but she'd let you get away with a short o sound of sloth if you called her Soph. Just.

It's as if having a child gives you the right to put it in a garishly designed glorified-cart and hit people in the ankles with it. I'm sure that was the 'Pro' that really sold them on the whole child idea.

i wasn't allowed to make my doctors appointment as we are 'shortstaffed' and i'm sat in work, scrabbling for things to do. it's slow today.

i was meant to be moving desks so i'd be sitting with everyone else and not far away with my back to them, but apparently i've been shunted aside for someone else and i only heard about this through hearing them speak about it, no one told me.

Particularly as I'm cleaning and packing my entire flat, am full of cold and have no appetite to eat. It's been a long day.
No anger. My face is just THROBBING though.

Oh and people call me all manner of incorrect things. I got angry about it til a few months ago, now I just think 'you dumbarse' and ignore/delete. Probably the best ever was 'sir' from the tit-staring boss. Ha!

Particularly as I'm cleaning and packing my entire flat, am full of cold and have no appetite to eat. It's been a long day.
No anger. My face is just THROBBING though.

Oh and people call me all manner of incorrect things. I got angry about it til a few months ago, now I just think 'you dumbarse' and ignore/delete. Probably the best ever was 'sir' from the tit-staring boss. Ha!

The one that annoys me is people spelling my name wrong after I’ve gone out of my way to tell them how it should be spelled. I might as well legaly change my name to 'Tomos spelled the Welsh way, that's T-O-M-O-S' but people would still insist on sticking an 'h' in there somewhere.

apart from perhaps my mum when I was in trouble, or doctors, or teachers the first time they do the register. Someone called me Sammy once, but they stopped after I pushed their face into a cement mixer.

is people going on and on about what I prefer to be called. I don't mind Daniel, Dan, Danny, Danielasaur, Dan-Dan Dannykins. Just as long as you don't call me Cuntchops McGee or force me into a 30 minute long debate about my name, I couldn't care less.

i owned my strategic presentation today, have news of an interview, have done another DiS article for slowcore week, and the weathers lovely so im going for a walk.
tomorrow will be fantastic too, get to see lots of friends and a couple good bands.

who don't know me that well. My friends are allowed to call me Cat, other people may call me by my whole name, it's only polite! Although Cat is better than a myriad of horrible mispronunciations of my full name i guess.